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Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths. -- Elizabeth I
Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away. -- Thomas Beecham
Brass, stay down all summer. -- Eugene Ormandy
His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar. -- Robert Burns
He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass. -- Horace
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther. -- Thomas Hood
In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind. -- Charles Ives
Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current. -- Laurence Sterne
One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art? -- Franz Schubert
You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass. -- Ben Harper
In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who's been putting these stumbling blocks, these brass cobblestones, outside the houses Jews were taken away from. It's somewhat controversial and has met some resistance. -- Amy Waldman
Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass. -- Herb Alpert
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. -- William Shakespeare
Test of Metal: Will of Iron, Nerves of Steel, Heart of Gold, Balls of Brass. -- George Carlin
Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks. -- T. S. Eliot
You don't need to be born with a silver spoon to reach for the brass ring -- Sandra Lee
I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy. -- Lester Bowie
Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,Leave a house empty, it rots. -- Ovid
If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down. -- John Cotton
Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow. -- Chanakya
Hercules used noise! Brass bells! He scared them away with the most horrible sound he could-" said Percy "Percy... Chiron's collection! -- Rick Riordan
I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful. -- Betty Smith
Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior. -- Mimi Sheraton
Inspire the Vocal Brass, Inspire; The World is past its Infant Age: Arms and Honour, Arms and Honour, Set the Martial Mind on Fire, And kindle Manly Rage. -- John Dryden
When I was a kid, my friends and I formed a band, Trombone Shorty's Brass Band. When I was six, I was a bandleader for my brother's band. -- Trombone Shorty
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But bad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? -- William Shakespeare
Sergeant Colon of the Ankh-Morpork City Guard was on duty. He was guarding the Brass Bridge, the main link between Ankh and Morpork. From theft. When it came to crime prevention, Sergeant Colon found it safest to think big. -- Terry Pratchett
In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy. -- Mark Twain
Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I kind of lost contact. At one point, the only connection I had with the audience was with people out there lighting cigarettes. -- Herb Alpert
Fraud and deceit have been practiced since the beginning of history...Brass has been called gold; glass has been sold as diamonds; and poison has been hawked as excellent food. The story of fraud throughout the ages forms an ugly chapter of human history. -- John Andreas Widtsoe
As many bands as you heard [in New Orleans], that's how many bands you heard playing right. I thought I was in Heaven playing second trumpet in the Tuxedo Brass Band -- and they had some funeral marches that would just touch your heart, they were so beautiful. -- Louis Armstrong
True love requires action. We can speak of love all day long, we can write notes or poems that proclaim it, sing songs that praise it, and preach sermons that encourage it but until we manifest that love in action, our words are nothing but sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. -- Frederick Douglass
Quicksilver is used for many purposes; without it, neither silver nor brass can be properly gilt. -- Vitruvius
When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up. -- Nate Berkus
It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean. -- Samuel L. Jackson
I do happen to have a good life... But I also like to work. I feel like I got the brass ring and I got very lucky in this. -- George Clooney
I've had so much success. I had something to say, I got to say it, people heard it, and they agreed. That's every artist's dream. That's the brass ring. -- Joss Whedon
The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease. -- Illinois Jacquet
The Indians gave up the land of their own free will, and for it received brass kettles, blankets, guns, shirts, flints, tobacco, rum and many trinkets in which their simple hearts delighted. -- Patrick Gordon
I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway. -- Barbra Streisand
Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself. -- Eberhard Weber
I know some actors feel classes are not cool or they create negative public relations, but I continue to crave the story just beyond my reach. To grasp that brass ring I need to continue to fine-tune my talents. -- Michael Welch
With a lot of action scores, you're competing with a lot of noise. Say there's a big explosion: the music would conventionally have a lot of Hollywood-style percussion or brass, because that's the only thing that will cut through. -- Steven Price
I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instruments, keyboard, the brass and woodwinds - but only well enough to teach them. If you put a violin in front of me, you wouldn't say, 'My God, that guy can play.' It'd probably sound more like Jack Benny. -- Jon Tester
Virtue's a stronger guard than brass. -- Edmund Waller
Establish liberty on a rock of brass. -- Maximilien Robespierre
Braying of arrogant brass, whimper of querulous reeds. -- William Watson
I have completed a monument more lasting than brass. -- Horace
Faith and philosophy are air, but events are brass. -- Herman Melville
Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. -- Lord Chesterfield
Never look at the brass - it only encourages them. -- Richard Strauss
I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass. -- Horace
The golden years are for pussies. We went straight to brass. -- Janet Evanovich
Faith without a measure of doubt ain't worth a brass farthin. -- Howard Frank Mosher
Faith without a measure of doubt ain't worth a brass farthin'. -- Howard Frank Mosher
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtue we write in water. -- William Shakespeare
Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring. -- Mae West
Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes. -- Claude Debussy
If you're in the room, you've grabbed the brass ring. You are all winners. -- George Clooney
People's good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass. -- William Shakespeare
Creative people tend to pass the responsibility for getting down to brass tacks to others. -- Theodore Levitt
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass. -- John Dryden
The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise. -- Gay Talese
Today, idols are not made of wood, stone, or brass. They are made of money, sex, and power. -- Peter Kreeft
Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean. -- Horace
It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round. -- Julie Andrews
If you think that the brass is not blowing loud enough, mute it by a couple of degrees. -- Richard Strauss
As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands? -- Thomas Beecham
In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass, -- Marge Piercy
Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble. -- William Drummond
A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange! -- Charles Dickens
If only there was a way I could cover my tension with the scent of eau de brass valls instead. -- Jeaniene Frost
Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale. -- Horace
I was ready to approach her with my English charm, when her brass knuckled boyfriend grabbed me by the arm. -- Elton John
Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation. -- Horace
The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine. -- Ouida
I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring, but I did very well. -- Dan Quayle
In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts. -- Mal Peet
There's a sculpture in our bedroom, a solid brass replica of Antonio's manhood. It's very expensive, he gave it to me as a romantic gift. -- Melanie Griffith
Lot Of Strip Clubs in Florida... Good grief... Florida has so many strip clubs, they need to change their state flag to a brass pole. -- Wanda Sykes
If England was what England seems, And not the England of our dreams; But only putty, brass, and paint, 'Ow we'd chuck 'er- but she ain't! -- Rudyard Kipling
Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar. -- Mark Twain
Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass, trombones, trumpets, saxophones, everything. -- Cootie Williams
There is a spirit in us that makes our brass to blare and our cymbals crash-all, of course, supported by the practicalities of trained lung power, throat, heart, guts. -- Laurence Olivier
When you talking about funk music you just talking about a collage of a lot of different types of music. They used strings, they had brass, they had vocalist. -- Killer Mike
White and scrubbed, antique brass fixtures and a skylight letting in a flood of sunshine. Wow. You could get a tan standing around in the shower, for Christ's sake. -- Lilith Saintcrow
Barton is a pretty brass tacks kind of guy. Kinda get the job done so I can go home. So I don't think it's very difficult for him to decide. -- Jeremy Renner
we Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and a few people whistling will do the job. -- Gene Tierney
... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust? -- Margaret Deland
Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'. -- George Bernard Shaw
If you can't have a good time and smile and relate to people across race and class, then the success that you have ultimately is just sounding brass and tinkling symbol. -- Cornel West
You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your uncle George was living much less when he's dead. -- Charles Dickens
Talk without truth is the hollow brass; talk without love is like the tinkling cymbal, and when it does not tinkle it jingles, and when it does not jingle, it jars. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
But fame is theirs - and future days On pillar'd brass shall tell their praise; Shall tell - when cold neglect is dead - "These for their country fought and bled." -- Philip Freneau
I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that stuff, 'cause that's just like part of my DNA. -- Quincy Jones
For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping. -- Kate Walsh
I find brass bands have a melancholy sound. All right out of doors, of course - fifty miles away. Like bagpipes, they turn what had been a dream into a public nuisance. -- Thomas Beecham
Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When ev'n the bees lag at the summoning brass. -- Leigh Hunt
When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets. -- Zhuangzi

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